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What can you do as a professional pharmacist to improve young women's access to emergency birth control pills in South Carolina?
Pharmacists can help young women get emergency birth control pills quickly – within 72 hours after unprotected sex. Better yet, pharmacists can encourage young women to get emergency birth control pills before they need them – to have them on hand in case of emergency.
You can:
- Learn all the facts about emergency birth control pills. Read APhA Special Report, Emergency Contraception: The Pharmacist’s Role, visit http://www.aphanet.org. For additional resources, click here.
- Educate your customers about emergency birth control pills. Offer brochures, wallet cards, and/or prescription inserts about emergency birth control. To get materials for your pharmacy, click here.
- Refer your customers for a prescription. To find a local health care professional who will write prescriptions for emergency contraception, click here.
- Keep emergency birth control pills/ Plan B® in stock so young people can get their prescriptions filled quickly. Make Plan B® available without a prescription to women ages 18 and over, in keeping with the FDA’s August 2006 decision.
- Provide non-judgmental customer care to young people, regardless of age.
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